1. Let me make that perfectly clear

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Today’s quiz: where does Pierre Karl Peladeau stand on the Energy East pipeline project, which would ship crude from Alberta to the East Coast? Even PK doesn’t seem to know. The soon-to-be PQ leader told a crowd in Quebec the project is ““a pipeline project that nobody wants.” Does that mean he’s against it? Not necessarily. His official position is that consultations are needed into the project. So did he mean it when he said no one wants it? “I don’t know, I’m not a pollster,” he said. “I’d be surprised if I did, in fact, say that. But it’s possible that I did say it, and if I did, it was a mistake because the Liberals won’t be the ones deciding if we will or won’t get (a pipeline).” So he’s not necessarily against it then? Wrong. According to a Peladeau spokesperson, “He considers that no one wants it, and on the other hand we don’t even have a say in it.” OK then. Why didn’t you say so?

2. Big Tank. Vladimir like. Go boom

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Moscow has a whole new fleet of ultra-sophisticated tanks it says will allow it to outclass the West the next time we go to war with Russia. Russian military experts have said the Armata will compete with or outclass western tanks such as the American Abrams, Britain’s Challenger and Germany’s Leopard, putting an end to the West’s post-Cold War supremacy in battlefield armour.

Sounds scary. But, were we planning a war with Russia? And just when was the last major tank battle? Anyone get the feeling Putin just really love tanks and is dying to drive one? With no shirt on.

3. The window opened and the NDP climbed through

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If Justin Trudeau looked slightly less than thrilled about the NDP victory in Alberta, you can understand why. The Liberals have been waiting 43 years for the Alberta Tories to stumble, and what happens when they do? The Libs get one lousy seat and 4% of the vote. “I’ve heard from all my visits out to Alberta that people are looking for an alternative,” Trudeau said Wednesday. “I’ve been talking about this window of change in Alberta for a long time.” Then the window opened and 53 NDP winners jammed through it.

4. Hold that wrecking crew

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Proponents of tearing down the east end of Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway got a nasty setback when a University of Toronto report said it would increase commutes by 10 minutes, not the three minutes city staff and fans of the deal have been claiming. It would also cost $36.6-million each year in lost productivity and pour an extra 1,600 cars onto Richmond St. clogging up the centre of downtown. Chew on that, hoity-toity anti-commuter snobs. Anyone who thinks an extra 10 minutes every morning is no big deal hasn’t seen people go bat-crazy because they get delayed 3 seconds by someone on the QEW who didn’t get out of the way fast enough.

5. They’ll get through it

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This is the big day for Britain. Jeepers what’s gonna happen? 950 years of civilization on the line. I say they muddle through. Bloody Scots think they can run the country do they? We’ll see about that. Cuppa tea, read the paper, put a fiver on Man U. Jolly good, chaps. Carry on.

These just in

– Now 15, THAT would be too many

This woman had 14 shots of whisky and the judge doesn’t believe she was I capacitated? Holy crap, how much do they drink in halifax?

– Must have ruined his donut

A North Carolina cop is suing Starbucks because his free cup of coffee was too hot, and he spilled it. “I didn’t know it was that hot,” Matthew Kohr said during his cross examination in a Raleigh court. He wants $750,000.

– Steinbeck will be devastated when he hears

More on North Carolina: Parents want Of Mice and Men and The Kite Runner banned. Also in Idaho. Mary Jo Finney, a parent who has previously raised objections about books in her school district’s curriculum, declared that the book “is neither a quality story nor a page turner.” Obviously that’s why it’s only been in print for, what, 80 years?